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13/12/2012

This Tuesday, the European Parliament will decide if billions will be made available for cycling infrastructure and EuroVelo

Don’t Let The EU Parliament Ignore 100 Million Cyclists !

This Tuesday, the European Parliament will decide if billions
will be made available for cycling infrastructure and EuroVelo. ECF and
its members are calling upon the cycling world to make their voice heard
by putting pressure on the Parliament’s Transport Committee.

There are 35 million daily cyclists in Europe. There are more than
100 million Europeans that cycle regularly. The European Institutions
however are failing to take cycling seriously as a mode of Transport.
Strategic EU documents keep failing to mention cycling and it is at risk of being sidelined by more powerful lobby interests.

It’s Time For This To Change

Important budgets are being decided between now and 2014.

On Tuesday December 18, the European Transport
Committee will vote on crucial legislation which has a big impact on
cycling. This particular case is the funding rules for major
infrastructure projects in the strategic European networks (called
Ten-T). Although this appears to be major road, rail and transport
corridors, the exclusion of cycling would mean that cycling provision
such as road crossings, major junctions and ECF’s strategic EuroVelo
network would be excluded.

It’s time for us to remind the European Parliament, a democratically
elected body, that cyclists’ have a voice and a place in European
policy.

Last year, the Parliament’s official opinion
was to include Eurovelo in this network. Being included in this network
would open up the path for billions of euros of investments in cycling
infrastructure across Europe.

Since then the European Commission and the Transport Committee in the
European Parliament have been preparing these guidelines, but have excluded cycling and EuroVelo, despite this earlier recommendation.

Once again, they have excluded cycling from transport policy and billions in potential funding.
We need you to write to your MEP. We’ve prepared a letter below with
instructions about who to send it to. It’s not too late. We can make
sure that cycling gets the funding it deserves.

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